Securian Financial · 1 day ago
REO Resiliency Engineering and Quality Leader (Hybrid)
St Paul, MN
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$145K/yr - $267K/yr
12+ years expSecurian Financial is seeking a Director of Resilience Engineering and Quality Leader to ensure their technology platforms and cloud services operate with resilience, performance, and quality. This role involves leading engineering practices across multi-cloud environments and collaborating with various teams to embed reliability and resilience in architecture.
Financial ServicesInsuranceLife Insurance
Responsibilities
Lead the engineering discipline that ensures Securian’s technology platforms and cloud services are built and operated with uncompromising resilience, performance, and quality
Drive the design and automation of fault-tolerant, high-availability architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Shape cloud reliability, quality engineering, and resilience strategy across REO and Architecture domains
Lead Sr. Managers and Managers who own the execution of quality, resilience, and performance engineering capabilities
Work hand-in-hand with Technology, Solution, Business, Data, and Enterprise Architects to embed reliability and resilience as core architecture principles
Architect and validate fault-tolerant, regionally resilient architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Own resilience automation, chaos testing, and IaC-based recovery validation
Lead cross-cloud reliability design reviews and failure-mode analyses for critical systems
Define enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy integrated into CI/CD pipelines
Drive automation-first testing (functional, non-functional, performance, resilience)
Embed observability-driven quality validation and contract testing across services
Oversee predictive capacity planning, scaling automation, and cost/efficiency optimization (FinOps/GreenOps)
Partner with Platform & Infrastructure teams to tune performance across application and platform layers
Measure and report on performance SLIs/SLAs aligned to REO’s Reliability Metrics framework
Partner with Enterprise Architects to codify resilience and reliability standards in technology blueprints
Collaborate with Technology & Solution Architects to design service reliability into delivery architectures
Engage Data Architects for data resilience, replication, and pipeline reliability
Work with Business Architects to align technical reliability goals with critical business outcomes
Lead a team of Sr. Managers and Managers, fostering a high-performance, hands-on engineering culture
Build and mentor top-tier technical talent in cloud reliability, resilience, and quality automation
Partner with HR and REO Enablement to develop succession plans and technical competency frameworks
Qualification
Required
12+ years in cloud engineering, reliability, or platform leadership roles
5+ years leading Sr. Managers/Managers in technical domains
Proven expertise across AWS, with working knowledge of Azure and GCP
Experience with multi-cloud governance, DR design, IaC at scale, and reliability automation
Strong understanding of observability, SRE principles, and REO/ITIL-aligned reliability frameworks
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Preferred
AWS DevOps Engineer
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Google Professional Cloud Architect
Benefits
Paid Time Off
Leave programs
Holidays
Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan
Health insurance
Volunteer time
Associate Resource Groups
Company
Securian Financial
To be confident in your financial future, you need to trust the strength and commitment of your financial organization.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Christopher Hilger
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Darrin Hebert
SVP & Chief Information Officer
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